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🗓️ 29 July 2025
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Social media can help you stay in touch with friends, but it also has many issues. Jim Daly and Arlene Pellicane share about the dangers kids face on social media. Then, Danny and John will encourage you to respond well if your child is getting inappropriate messages online.
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0:30.9 | Social media, what did we do before it? |
0:35.3 | It's so helpful to stay in touch with friends. I think |
0:38.1 | that's one of the key ways I stay in touch with high school friends that I just don't see very |
0:41.8 | often. But I think as we all intuitively know, there is a darker, very serious side to social |
0:48.8 | media. We're going to talk about what those dangers are and how you can protect your kids while they're online. |
0:55.7 | I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who's in charge of our parenting team. |
0:59.9 | And Danny, no doubt, it seems very clear that the rise in teens and anxiety is directly related |
1:08.9 | to the increase in social media. |
1:11.2 | Yeah, and if people have been listening to a lot of the news that's out there, |
1:15.2 | it's been affirmed that research confirms the increase in depression and anxiety, |
1:22.9 | mental health issues among teens and preteens and young adults from when social media was adopted |
1:29.5 | full throttle into society, right? |
1:32.4 | And one stat that's interesting to me is 46% of teens, age 13 to 18, say that while using |
1:40.8 | social media, they feel worse at the end of using it. |
1:44.4 | So even just an awareness of feeling worse with that, seven out of 10 girls, 11 to 15, |
1:50.9 | that are depressed, end up coming across some type of content around suicide when they're on |
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